Tom turkeys boom out their raucous gobbles over the hills and down the hollows each spring, bragging that they made it through another winter. That hasn’t changed. But springtime comes earlier these ...

Just because the first two weeks of spring gobbler season have gone without filling a tag is no reason to be pessimistic for those willing to take advantage to changes in the season. First, instead of ...

Few things can quicken the pulse of a Pennsylvania hunter as much as the sound of a Tom turkey’s gobble both near and far. With opening day of the state’s spring gobbler season less than a week away, ...

It was 60 years ago that the group The Outsiders crooned the lyrics “I can’t wait forever; Even though you want me to.” They could well have been singing about the frustration hunters feel that have ...

Very few aspects of hunting spring gobblers are easy, but nothing is as easy as preseason scouting. Even a novice, especially if seeking advice from a veteran beak-buster friend, can get it right the ...

Before dawn on April 19 Daniel Maness and his good friend Chris Morris were owl-hooting on a hunt club where Maness had seen turkeys during deer season. The club sat on 300 acres in west-central North ...

With May now underway, even Northeastern hunters are done waiting for the spring gobbler season to start (or very nearly done waiting in one case. We see you Pennsylvania). Meanwhile, most hunters in ...

For those of us lucky enough to still be chasing gobblers, which includes hunters in most of the northern half of the country, we are now firmly in the late season. The bad news is that we only have a ...

A Mississippi father and son, who don't consider themselves turkey hunters, had unexpectedly successful hunts. The son, Raif, harvested his first turkey ever after a persistent effort involving ...

Few things can quicken the pulse of a Pennsylvania hunter as much as the sound of a Tom turkey’s gobble both near and far. With opening day of the state’s spring gobbler season less than two weeks ...